Calling a Phoenix view from a plug fails in test

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I’m trying to call the Phoenix (default generated) ErrorView from a plug like this:

  defp basic_verify(conn, credentials) do
    with {:ok, decoded} <- Base.decode64(credentials),
         [username, password] <- String.split(decoded, ":", parts: 2),
         {:ok, user} <- Hexer.Auth.login(username, password, allow_unverified: true) do
      put_user(conn, user)
    else
      _ ->
        conn
        |> put_resp_header("www-authenticate", "Basic realm=\"API keys\"")
        |> put_status(401)
        |> Phoenix.Controller.put_view(HexerWeb.ErrorView)
        |> Phoenix.Controller.render(:"401")
        |> halt()
    end
  end

And when testing this in the browser everything works great.
However, in my unit tests when I’m testing the plug itself using the this code:

    test "sets WWW-Authenticate header on invalid username/password", %{
      conn: conn,
      invalid_credentials: credentials
    } do
      conn =
        conn
        |> put_req_header("authorization", "Basic #{credentials}")
        |> BasicAuth.basic_auth([])

      %{halted: halted} = conn
      assert halted
      assert "Basic realm=\"API keys\"" in get_resp_header(conn, "www-authenticate")
    end

I get the following error:

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I’ve fiddled around with bypass_through but I can’t seem to get rid of the error.